| hear | (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, learn, pick up, see |
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| (verb) perceive (sound) via the auditory sense | - |
| (verb) receive a communication from someone | - |
| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: listen, take heed |
| (verb) examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process | Synonyms: try |
| hearable | (adjective) heard or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audible |
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| heard | (adjective) detected or perceived by the sense of hearing | - |
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| hearer | (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, auditor, listener |
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| hearing | (adjective) able to perceive sound | - |
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| (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: listening |
| (noun) (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence | - |
| (noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty | Synonyms: audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing |
| (noun) a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken | - |
| (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, earshot |
| (noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: audience |
| hearken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, harken |
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| hearsay | (adjective) heard through another rather than directly | - |
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| (noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
| hearse | (noun) a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle | - |
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| heart | (noun) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it | - |
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| (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: mettle, nerve, spunk |
| (noun) an inclination or tendency of a certain kind | Synonyms: spirit |
| (noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: pump, ticker |
| (noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions | Synonyms: bosom |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
| (noun) a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal) | - |
| (noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, eye, middle |
| (noun) a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines | - |
| heartache | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartbreak |
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| heartbeat | (noun) an animating or vital unifying force | - |
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| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: beat, pulsation, pulse |
| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
| heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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| heartbreaker | (noun) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute | - |
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| (noun) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| heartbroken | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartsick |
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| heartburn | (noun) a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder | Synonyms: pyrosis |
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| heartburning | (noun) intense resentment | - |
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| hearten | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, recreate |
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| heartening | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: inspiriting |
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| heartfelt | (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, devout, earnest |
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| hearth | (noun) home symbolized as a part of the fireplace | Synonyms: fireside |
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| (noun) an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built | Synonyms: fireplace, open fireplace |
| (noun) an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room) | Synonyms: fireside |
| hearthrug | (noun) a rug spread out in front of a fireplace | - |
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| hearthstone | (noun) a stone that forms a hearth | - |
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| heartily | (adverb) in a hearty manner | Synonyms: cordially, warmly |
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| (adverb) with gusto and without reservation | - |
| heartiness | (noun) the quality of hearty sincerity | Synonyms: wholeheartedness |
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| (noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: dynamism, vigor, vigour |
| heartland | (noun) the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture | - |
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| heartleaf | (noun) evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey heart-shaped pungent leaves; Virginia to South Carolina | Synonyms: Asarum virginicum, heart-leaf |
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| (noun) wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama | Synonyms: Asarum shuttleworthii, heart-leaf |
| heartless | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: hardhearted |
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| (adjective) devoid of courage or enthusiasm | - |
| heartlessly | (adverb) in a heartless manner | - |
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| heartlessness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, hardheartedness |
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| heartrending | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartbreaking |
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| heartrot | (noun) any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees) | - |
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| hearts | (noun) a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades | Synonyms: Black Maria |
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| heartsease | (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
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| (noun) common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers | Synonyms: field pansy, Viola arvensis |
| (noun) violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet | Synonyms: two-eyed violet, Viola ocellata |
| (noun) a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived | Synonyms: Johnny-jump-up, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor, wild pansy |
| heartseed | (noun) herbaceous vine of tropical America and Africa | Synonyms: Cardiospermum grandiflorum |
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| heartsick | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: despondent |
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| (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartbroken |
| heartsickness | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, despondency, disconsolateness |
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| heartstrings | (noun) your deepest feelings of love and compassion | - |
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| heartthrob | (noun) an object of infatuation | - |
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| heartwarming | (adjective) causing gladness and pleasure | - |
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| heartwood | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: duramen |
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| hearty | (adjective) deeply felt | - |
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| (adjective) showing warm and heartfelt friendliness | - |
| (adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: satisfying, solid, square, substantial |
| (adjective) consuming abundantly and with gusto | - |
| (adjective) endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health | Synonyms: full-blooded, lusty, red-blooded |